July 24, 2008
By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
More than 25 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have pledged to pursue practices that bolster public health practices in the countries in which they work, as part of an international nongovernmental organization code of conduct developed by UW professors working for Health Alliance International in Seattle.
UW Medical Center (UWMC) has ranked 10th in U.
By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
One of the first AIDS research centers in the country has been awarded $16.
July 23, 2008
A University of Washington study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals.
July 22, 2008
Adolescent girls who had a serious school failure by the 12th grade — being expelled, suspended or dropping out — were significantly more likely to have suffered a serious bout of depression at the age of 21 than girls who did not have these problems.
July 17, 2008
University of Washington President Mark A.
Today (July 17) the University of Washington Foundation announced that more than $2.
July 15, 2008
The damage to brain tissue seen in Huntington’s disease may be caused by an overactive immune response in the bloodstream and the brain, according to new findings from two teams of researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle and University College London.
Insert your key in the ignition of a luxury car and the seat and steering wheel will automatically adjust to preprogrammed body proportions.
July 14, 2008
Asian-American immigrants who came to the United States before they were 25 years old have poorer mental health than their compatriots who came to this country when they were 25 or older, according to data from the first national mental health survey of Asian-Americans.
Inexperienced investors can negatively affect their investment results by using “unfiltered” information from Securities and Exchange Commission filings, according to research conducted at the University of Washington.
With their waiting rooms crowded and exam rooms full, many physicians say they are too busy to be good communicators. Those who study physician time-management think otherwise.
July 10, 2008
The School of Music will celebrate summer with a pair of free concerts in the coming week.
It’s cool to combine jazz and art, and that’s what’s happening from noon to 1 p.
As summer settles over the UW’s Seattle campus, employees all ask the same question sooner or later: “Hey, what’s open for lunch on campus these days?”
It’s a good question, because with most students gone and demand down, many campus eateries shut down for a while, at least in early summer.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting Thursday, July 17, at 3 p.
Every summer quarter, the School of Drama opens up its course in theatrical makeup to nonmajors.
Bankers and boomerangers, football players and first-year students, computer programmers and cheerleaders.
A thousand UW faculty, staff and alumni have signed up to watch the Seattle Mariners battle the Cleveland Indians on July 18 — but there are 500 tickets still available.
For Iain Robertson, a UW landscape architecture professor, Kahalu’u Beach Park turned out to be one of the most fascinating projects he’s ever worked on.
Neurons in brains of one songbird species equipped with a built-in suicide program that kicks in at the end of the breeding season have been kept alive for seven days in live birds by researchers trying to understand the role that steroid hormones play in the growth and maintenance of the neural song system.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
SHE’S GOLDEN: Patricia Kuhl, co-director of the UW’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences and its NSF Science of Learning Center, was awarded the Acoustical Society of America’s Gold Medal, its highest award.
Welcome to the grand re-opening of the UW’s southwest waterfront.
The collapse of the Sacramento River chinook salmon run may be another lesson on the importance of coming to grips with the biocomplexity behind successful salmon runs.
Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for potentially catastrophic changes in the world’s oceans, and the culprit isn’t only climate change, says a UW conservation biologist.
UW Medical Center’s Tim Nguyen, manager of Waste Operations, and Sheila Lockwood, Environmental Health and Safety, accepted in May UWMC’s second consecutive Environmental Leadership Award from Practice Greenhealth.
By Cynthia Salzman
Rehabilitation Medicine
Aditya Ganapathiraju uses the word “interesting” to describe his life so far.
The Cerner/ORCA CIS Replacement (CISR) project has been named IT Project of the Year by Advance for Health Information Executives, an industry publication for health care executives.
UW Medical Center (UWMC) took part in an international broadcast and global launch of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Safe Surgery Saves Lives” campaign Wednesday, June 25.
By Jean Patterson
School of Social Work
Stigma, Prejudice, Discrimination and Health, a special issue of the journal Social Science & Medicine, is groundbreaking in exploring links among stigma, prejudice, and discrimination and their impact on health, as well as implications for public health practice.
July 9, 2008
Neurons in brains of one songbird species equipped with a built-in suicide program that kicks in at the end of the breeding season have been kept alive for seven days in live birds by researchers trying to understand the role that steroid hormones play in the growth and maintenance of the neural song system.
July 2, 2008
UW Medical Center (UWMC) took part in an international broadcast and global launch of the World Health Organization’s “Safe Surgery Saves Lives” campaign Wednesday, June 25.
June 30, 2008
Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for potentially catastrophic changes in the world’s oceans, and the culprit isn’t only climate change, says a University of Washington conservation biologist.
June 26, 2008
For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods — land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages — in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million years ago.
The International Mineralogical Association has named a new mineral, the first to be discovered in a particle from a comet, in honor of Donald Brownlee, a UW astronomer who revolutionized research on interplanetary dust entering Earth’s atmosphere.
Adolescents attending college six months after completing high school are significantly less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior than those who do not go to college, according to the first study to directly compare the two groups.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Online asbestos training required for UW employees
The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) requires the UW to provide general asbestos awareness training to all UW employees.
A special work by artist Jacob Lawrence arrived at the University this week, but it won’t be found in a gallery.